Measurement of Trace NH3Concentration in Atmosphere by Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

作者：Kou, Xiaowen; Zhou, Bin; Liu, Xunchen; Chen, Haixuan; Zhang, Meng; Liu, Pengfei

来源：Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(11): 1130001.

DOI：10.3788/AOS201838.1130001

• Atmospheric environment
• Atmospheric monitoring
• Cavity ring down spectroscopies
• Concentration Measurement
• Detection sensitivity
• Fine particulate matter
• High reflectivity mirrors
• Monitoring and protections

Ammonia (NH3) is one of the main precursors of secondary fine particulate matters in the atmosphere. The accurate measurement of NH3concentration plays an important role in the monitoring and protection of atmospheric environment. Although the cost of a near-infrared laser is relatively low, there always exist some problems such as the H2O, CO2gas interference in the environment and the limited absorption path when it is used for the NH3concentration measurement. In order to reduce the H2O and CO2interference in the environment, we screen out the absorption line with a central wavenumber of 6521.97 cm-1, which is used for the measurement of the trace NH3concentration in the atmospheric environment. Moreover, this spectral line is not affected by the CO2absorption in the environment and its overlap range with the H2O absorption line is small under the condition of low pressures. The spectral absorptivity of NH3can be accurately extracted through multi-peak fitting. A measurement device based on cavity ring-down spectroscopy is built with a distributed feedback laser, in which the ring-down cavity is composed of a pair of high reflectivity mirrors with a reflectivity of up to 99.996%, the empty ring-down time is about 96 μs, and the effective absorption path is about 1.6×104m. The trace NH3concentration in the atmospheric environment is measured with this device, and the results show that the detection sensitivity of this measurement system can approach 3.9×10-10.

• 单位
  上海交通大学; 东南大学